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Drug Facts

  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.

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